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I am from Chile. I was born in Iquique;a small city sorrounded by beautiful beaches and which is inside of the driest desert of the world.
I can say that since I remember I was always a girl who enjoyed playing in the sea. My father is a Marine Biologist so he taught me amazing things about ocean wildlife and its nature.
My most beautiful memory is related to my work as a volunteer by supporting an envirnonmental foreign coordinator whose native language did not allow him to communicate with people around the male dolphin. I volunteered with language tanslation, nonetheless, I can say that regardless of my assignment I discovered the beauty of wildlife and the insignificance of human kind. Menique, the dolphin (he) was the one who taught me the importance of "not knowing any alphabetic system" and a specific language per se. In the beginning he was very rude and mean to me, because he did not know me. Finally he allowed me to be in that felthy water which was his "habitat" until he died.
He was rescued by an european environmental organization and was taken into Cuba. He was sick and after a while being in Cuba he died of Pneumonia. Even more, his soulmate had died months before him. The cause was the ignorance and arrogance of the Human Kind.
Since then, I came to US by fortune and stayed. I became a public school teacher; currently teaching preschoolers and trying to make a difference into these little minds about the awareness of protecting nature and wildlife.
Thanks
Leslie Correa.
Dallas, TX
(My apologies for any mistakes made in my grammar)
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I am from Chile. I was born in Iquique;a small city sorrounded by beautiful beaches and which is inside of the driest desert of the world.I can say that since I remember I was always a girl who enjoyed playing in the sea. My father is a Marine Biologist so he taught me amazing things about ocean wildlife and its nature.
My most beautiful memory is related to my work as a volunteer by supporting an envirnonmental foreign coordinator whose native language did not allow him to communicate with people around the male dolphin. I volunteered with language tanslation, nonetheless, I can say that regardless of my assignment I discovered the beauty of wildlife and the insignificance of human kind. Menique, the dolphin (he) was the one who taught me the importance of "not knowing any alphabetic system" and a specific language per se. In the beginning he was very rude and mean to me, because he did not know me. Finally he allowed me to be in that felthy water which was his "habitat" until he died.
He was rescued by an european environmental organization and was taken into Cuba. He was sick and after a while being in Cuba he died of Pneumonia. Even more, his soulmate had died months before him. The cause was the ignorance and arrogance of the Human Kind.
Since then, I came to US by fortune and stayed. I became a public school teacher; currently teaching preschoolers and trying to make a difference into these little minds about the awareness of protecting nature and wildlife.
Thanks
Leslie Correa.
Dallas, TX
(My apologies for any mistakes made in my grammar)
(4 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)